Trains at Manchester Oxford Road 14/01/2023

[@Rheilffordd]

Great video! In 2019, I visited the UK from Australia, and actually spent a few hours spotting trains here, Piccadilly and Deansgate, and was in awe at all the different Classes and TOCs. Just awesome!

[@StarlifeStudios]

Thanks for your kind comments Rheilffordd, coming from Australia, you picked a good area for spotting multiple TOCs! Interesting that you mention Australia, I'd love to go there to film trains one day too 😃

[@Rheilffordd]

I live in Adelaide, if you ever do, please get in touch. I have friends in other cities as well that can help you.

[@trainstramscrossingsuk]

Nice one, loving the content you upload!

[@benGBRf]

Great video Ross. It's good seeing all the different units and of course seeing 66704 on 4L18 was a delight 😁

[@ENCTrainspotting]

Brilliant video as always! 👍

[@johnwalker6736]

It’s amazing just how much traffic a little station like Oxford Road can handle.

[@doisti-kun]

Great video trains in UK are so pretty

[@StarlifeStudios]

Most are yes, we have recently fell victim to a lot of questionable design choices (such as the loss of yellow fronts) thanks for watching 😃

[@doisti-kun]

@@StarlifeStudios Interesting, I rode a class 700 on thameslink this summer it was quite nice, it's really nice how many types of trains there is in the UK, here in Portugal there arent as many :/

[@oforid2227]

i see a 197 in the thumbnail 👀 i click it 😂

[@officialfoxygaming]

I'm really enjoying ur videos. Keep it up bro

[@StarlifeStudios]

Glad you like them Foxy! I promise, there is no end in sight 😁👍

[@duainesimpson274]

Great vid! Hope your enjoying the sunshine too ☀️ Love those 197’s ❤

[@StarlifeStudios]

Thanks Duaine, just come back from filming actually, been a great weekend for it 😃

[@duainesimpson274]

Yes awesome weekend! ☀️😃💯

[@Uktrainspotter09]

Great video keep up the good work

[@timvandiepen8373]

Awesome

[@fergus.015]

Great video as always. 👍

[@camotech1314]

Good variety in this one 😮

[@alexbrodowicz4210]

H Mate Fantastic video thanks very much.

[@lovefive5733]

Great video. Thank you for uploading this

[@StarlifeStudios]

Glad you enjoyed it Love Five! 😃

[@NQY-flyer]

Great location! On my to do list

[@transportlegendshorts]

Rocking the W Great stuff!

[@BusKid980]

Excellent video

[@EastLondonTrainspotter]

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[@Andrewjg_89]

Transport for Wales Class 197 DMU Civity are very impressive and beautiful trains as CAF have built them. And are similar to West Midlands Railway Class 196. Maybe CAF could build more extra trains that would help with the constant overcrowding of trains that passengers use when travelling around Greater Manchester and to replace the older trains. If Northern were to order more Class 195 and Class 331 and TfW to order more Class 197. And the Class 175 to be transferred to ScotRail to replace the older trains used in the North of Scotland.

[@andrewreynolds4949]

Not enough 175s for that, and Scotrail have said they’re not taking secondhand units right now

[@arnoldspottingvideos5269]

Nice video Ross. Good to catch TFW 197s and GBRf 66

[@StarlifeStudios]

Thanks Arnold, first time catching the 197s and I can’t say they look great from a visual point-of-view or from the interior. What do you think of them?

[@drukoo3089]

@@StarlifeStudios as someone who lives in wales tfw should really be doing better

[@StarlifeStudios]

Wales is a changing place for Rail, 90% of the current stock will be replaced and variety which has been in place for over 30 years will be lost in a similar way to how East Anglia has lost its variety to 755s.

[@Whistleboard]

Awesome video Ross!

[@Whistleboard]

His real name is Ross, it said in one of his videos.

[@StarlifeStudios]

Thanks 😃👍🏻 That’s all the major Manchester stations done. Next one in this area will be Victoria once Nationalised TPE get the 68s out again!

[@Whistleboard]

Hey, starlife want to trainspot at my station

[@Whistleboard]

It’s Crewkerne

[@cteasdale1979]

Great video

[@StarlifeStudios]

Thanks Christopher 🙂👍🏻

[@maimadha]

Great video.

[@BusKid820]

Nice

[@BusKid842]

Cool

[@ejc7129]

Grewt video 👀😎👍🏽 Its a busy and often congested location in the Castlefield Corridor 👀🤔👍🏽

[@StarlifeStudios]

It certainly is, I doesn't look like theres any hope of improvements in the future either! Thanks for watching as always 👍😃

[@ejc7129]

@@StarlifeStudios cheers…top man 😎⭐️👍🏽

[@spitfiregaming_]

Is Platform 1 still used? No trains called there in this video…

[@StarlifeStudios]

It isn’t used much now, it used to be regularly used for terminating Stockport 323 trains until ~2020. Now it’s used for one TPE train in the morning and one in the evening.

[@OfficialRyanx]

What was up with 185 149 on its return to Liverpool? Front coach sounded a tad different!

[@StarlifeStudios]

The additional 'whirring' sound with the engine noise I believe is the Radiator for the Air Conditioning. It certainly does sound different, but those 185s have some beastly engines anyway!

[@PK345Transport]

Nice video

[@MrIamcool3123]

Hello great video today and please can you do Carlisle or Oxenholme Lake District because I live in the Lake District.

[@Alpine05]

Cool video mate 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎

[@StarlifeStudios]

Many thanks 😃

[@davidpanton3192]

5:37 'Special Train' - is that because it is a TPE train that isn't late or cancelled?

[@StarlifeStudios]

Almost certainly! I didn’t expect any to run on this day 🤣

[@sarahbrooke3079]

Can you do Ramsgate

[@StarlifeStudios]

I will certainly look into ramsgate for you but I can’t promise anything! It’s very far from home 😃

[@Trains.and-Games._-]

What camera do u use?

[@BusKid980]

Can you pls do Highbury and Islington

[@Jack29551]

Why are all the trains that go to Manchester airport always late?

[@Martin_Trainspotter]

22:07, is it rare that a freight train passes through here? Great catch though. 👏

[@StarlifeStudios]

Freight isn’t too rare. On weekdays there are a handful a day and 1-2 on weekends (when I filmed this). Pretty much everything from Trafford Park Container terminal comes this way. It is however rare to get anything other than containers 😃

[@Martin_Trainspotter]

Oh, that makes sense. 👍

[@worldeuro]

Please do Lancaster

[@georginafraser825]

Can you go to Arlesey between Biggleswade and sandy

[@StarlifeStudios]

I hope to film here in the new few weeks during rush hour 😃👍🏻

[@Sarahbryson321]

The new TfW trans look horrible!

[@StarlifeStudios]

I completely agree. I *really* don’t like the way they look.

[@Welshtrainspotting2024]

@@StarlifeStudios i disagree, but opinions of any kind are valid when it comes to new transport, it will be some time for you to get use to the changing railways and how futuristic they will become in the following years, we are after all closely aporocing the 2030s in a few years from now, but i get that people dont like the 197s, i completly understand it, but give them a chance amd u may just change your mind, but its up to you in the end :) No venting or anger here, but give em a chance, they are still new and as i learnt people dont gest use to new things right away, it takes time.

[@StarlifeStudios]

Thanks Welsh Trains, perhaps I was a little too blunt with my comment. I agree with your generally philosophy and how opinions do change over time. Let me be a little more detailed; whilst the 175s are still about, it’s easy to compare between them and this is even more so because this fleet is newer than the vast majority of TfW stock. I will give it time and it looks like we’ll have to get used to them as well! 😃

[@georgedowns4034]

I am so confused- like how?

[@Welshtrainspotting2024]

@@StarlifeStudios i fell in love with them right away, cuz beung the person i a, with ADHD i love new things

[@Xavierek2012]

First

[@BusKid980]

Not

[@Zuuu40]

Awesome video

[@StarlifeStudios]

Glad you enjoyed it 👍